American Political Science Review

Papers
(The median citation count of American Political Science Review is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric103
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States72
This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest70
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis70
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet68
Starting with People Where They Are: Ella Baker’s Theory of Political Organizing66
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM65
Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley – CORRIGENDUM57
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification56
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism54
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates49
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom47
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China46
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior46
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election44
Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Affects Public Opinion on Protest Movements43
Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites42
Notes from the Editors: Advice to Authors42
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes38
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America37
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension36
Notes from the Editors: #APSR36
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative36
Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act36
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination35
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India35
Structural Responsibility34
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia34
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability33
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice33
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa33
Representative Democracy and Social Equality33
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach32
The Effect of Gender on Interruptions at Congressional Hearings32
How the Workplace Affects Employee Political Contributions32
Senators at Home: Local Attentiveness and Policy Representation in Congress31
Land, Opportunism, and Displacement in Civil Wars: Evidence from Colombia30
Can Stakeholders Mobilize Businesses for the Protection of Democracy? Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Insurrection30
Payments and Penalties for Democracy: Gendered Electoral Financing in Action Worldwide30
An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder of George Floyd30
Temporary Disenfranchisement: Negative Side Effects of Lowering the Voting Age29
Revolutionary Violence and Counterrevolution29
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Mass Versus Donor Attitudes on the Importance of Supreme Court Nominations28
Exposure to Mass Shootings and Voting Directly on Gun Policy27
“Let Our Ballots Secure What Our Bullets Have Won”: Union Veterans and the Making of Radical Reconstruction27
Litigation for Sale: Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation26
Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings26
Voting for Votes: Opposition Parties’ Legislative Activity and Electoral Outcomes26
Curation Bubbles25
Statistically Valid Inferences from Privacy-Protected Data25
Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice? The Effect of Mohamed Salah on Islamophobic Behaviors and Attitudes —CORRIGENDUM24
How Partisan Is Local Election Administration?24
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-19 — CORRIGENDUM24
Political Emancipation and Modern Jewish National Identity24
Trump and the Shifting Meaning of “Conservative”: Using Activists’ Pairwise Comparisons to Measure Politicians’ Perceived Ideologies23
Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox”23
Heterogeneous Naturalization Effects of Dual Citizenship Reform in Migrant Destinations: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Europe23
Elite Cues and Noncompliance22
Policy Threat, Partisanship, and the Case of the Affordable Care Act22
Publius’ Proleptic Constitution22
The Psychology of Online Political Hostility: A Comprehensive, Cross-National Test of the Mismatch Hypothesis22
Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced22
Press Coverage and Accountability in State Legislatures21
Anarchy, Scarcity, Nature: Rousseau’s Stag Hunt and the Arctic Walrus Hunt Compared21
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Democracy, Public Support, and Measurement Uncertainty21
Elite Change without Regime Change: Authoritarian Persistence in Africa and the End of the Cold War21
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International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup21
Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South21
Affluence and Influence in a Social Democracy21
Immigration, Backlash, and Democracy20
The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States20
Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud – CORRIGENDUM20
Competition in Congressional Elections: Money versus Votes20
The Representational Consequences of Municipal Civil Service Reform19
The View from the Future: Aurobindo Ghose’s Anticolonial Darwinism19
Which Markets, Whose Rationality? Markets as Polyvalent Political Devices19
Breaking the Mold: Normative Hybridity as the Key to Contemporary “Non-Western” Political Theorizing19
Military Service and Immigrants’ Integration: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries19
Does Political Representation Increase Participation? Evidence from Party Candidate Lotteries in Mexico19
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security – ERRATUM18
Internalist and Integrationist Theories of (Global) Justice18
Notes from the Editors: Post-Publication Critiques18
How Do Electoral Incentives Affect Legislator Behavior? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures18
Partisan Leaning18
A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico18
Does Competence Make Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behavior?18
Why We Need Minimum Wages: Pay, Recognition, and Economic Citizenship18
Midcentury Modern: The Emergence of Stakeholders in Democratic Practice18
Bureaucratic Representation and Gender Mainstreaming in International Organizations: Evidence from the World Bank18
Disappointed Expectations: Downward Mobility and Electoral Change17
How Does Community Policing Affect Police Attitudes? An Experimental Test and a Theory of Bureaucrat-Citizen Contact17
Global Slavery in the Making of States and International Orders17
Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism17
Frederick Douglass’s Political Theory of the Powerless: Natural Rights from Below17
What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy17
Government Rhetoric and the Representation of Public Opinion in International Negotiations17
War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party17
Campaign Finance Vouchers Do Not Expand the Diversity of Donors: Evidence from Seattle17
The President Will See Whom Now? Presidential Engagement with Organized Interests17
Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany17
Judicial Specialization and Deference in Asylum Cases on the U.S. Courts of Appeals16
“Moderates”16
The Free Movement of People and the Success of Far-Right Parties: Evidence from Switzerland’s Border Liberalization16
The Class Ceiling in Politics16
Autocratic Policy and the Accumulation of Social Capital: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program – CORRIGENDUM15
Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians15
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STADL Up! The Spatiotemporal Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model for TSCS Data Analysis15
What Is Colonialism? The Dual Claims of a Twentieth-Century Political Category15
The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria15
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Fairness According to Whom? Divergent Perceptions of Fairness among White and Black Americans and Its Effect on Trade Attitudes15
The Long-Term Effects of Oppression: Prussia, Political Catholicism, and the Alternative für Deutschland15
Who Votes: City Election Timing and Voter Composition14
Fathers’ Leave Reduces Sexist Attitudes14
Separate but Unequal: Ethnocentrism and Racialization Explain the “Democratic” Peace in Public Opinion14
“Keep Your Heads Held High Boys!”: Examining the Relationship between the Proud Boys’ Online Discourse and Offline Activities14
Searching for Ecoterrorism: The Crucial Case of the Unabomber14
Repression and Dissent in Moments of Uncertainty: Panel Data Evidence from Zimbabwe14
Why Botter: How Pro-Government Bots Fight Opposition in Russia13
Reframing the Guardianship Dilemma: How the Military’s Dual Disloyalty Options Imperil Dictators13
Public Reactions to Noncompliance with Judicial Orders13
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Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma13
Why Political Philosophy Should Be Robust13
The Politics of Sight: Revisiting Timothy Pachirat’sEvery Twelve Seconds13
Why So Little Strategic Voting in India?13
The Politics of Police Data: State Legislative Capacity and the Transparency of State and Substate Agencies13
The Domestic Sources of International Reputation13
The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation13
Movement versus Party: The Electoral Effects of Anti-Far Right Protests in Greece12
BARP: Improving Mister P Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees — CORRIGENDUM12
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Fake It ‘Til You Make It: A Natural Experiment to Identify European Politicians’ Benefit from Twitter Bots – CORRIGENDUM12
The Slaughter-House Dissents and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism12
Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming12
Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Liberal Nationalism12
Deprovincializing Racial Capitalism: John Crawfurd and Settler Colonialism in India12
Saving Migrants’ Basic Human Rights from Sovereign Rule12
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From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire12
Nietzsche’s Critique of Power: Mimicry and the Advantage of the Weak11
The Effect of Judicial Decisions on Issue Salience and Legal Consciousness in Media Serving the LGBTQ+ Community11
Strategic Reporting: A Formal Model of Biases in Conflict Data11
Measurement That Matches Theory: Theory-Driven Identification in Item Response Theory Models11
The Ambivalence of Alexander Berkman’s Anti-Prison Anarchism11
Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils11
Authoritarian Rallying as Reputational Cascade? Evidence from Putin’s Popularity Surge after Crimea10
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Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Prosperity: Party Competition and Policy Outcomes in 50 States10
Descriptive Representation and Party Building: Evidence from Municipal Governments in Brazil10
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-1910
Late Homesteading: Native Land Dispossession through Strategic Occupation10
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Can Racial Diversity among Judges Affect Sentencing Outcomes?10
Regime Support and Gender Quotas in Autocracies10
The Geography of Racially Polarized Voting: Calibrating Surveys at the District Level10
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Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas10
White, Male, and Angry: A Reputation-Based Rationale for Backlash10
Migration and the Demand for Transnational Justice10
The Right to Hunger Strike9
Don’t Look Back in Anger: Cooperation Despite Conflicting Historical Narratives9
Legacies of Wartime Sexual Violence: Survivors, Psychological Harms, and Mobilization9
The Apocalypse from Below: The Dangerous Idea of the End of the World, the Politics of the Oppressed, and Anti-Anti-Apocalypticism9
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The Vietnam Draft Lottery and Whites’ Racial Attitudes: Evidence from the General Social Survey9
“Outside Lobbying” over the Airwaves: A Randomized Field Experiment on Televised Issue Ads9
Moving toward the Median: Compulsory Voting and Political Polarization9
Durkheim’s Empire: The Concept of Solidarity and Its Colonial Dimension9
Can Elections Motivate Responsiveness in a Single-Party Regime? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam9
Taking Stock of Solidarity between People of Color: A Mini Meta-Analysis of Five Experiments9
Effective for Whom? Ethnic Identity and Nonviolent Resistance9
From Rents to Welfare: Why Are Some Oil-Rich States Generous to Their People?9
Explaining Rural Conservatism: Political Consequences of Technological Change in the Great Plains9
Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism9
Reconsidering the Link Between Self-Reported Personality Traits and Political Preferences9
Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods9
The Distributive Politics of Grants-in-Aid8
The Shadow Effect of Courts: Judicial Review and the Politics of Preemptive Reform8
An Insurgent Mood: Lorraine Hansberry on the Politics of Home8
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Collaboration and Its Political Functions8
Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base8
Rebel Motivations and Repression8
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security8
Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience8
Evidence of Caste-Class Discrimination from a Conjoint Analysis of Law Enforcement Officers8
Violence and Voting in the United States: How School Shootings Affect Elections8
The Curse of Good Intentions: Why Anticorruption Messaging Can Encourage Bribery8
Out-Competing Rivals: Armed Group Governance and Civilian Attitudes in Colombia8
The Influence of Partisanship on Assessments of Promise Fulfillment and Accountability7
Democracy and the Epistemic Problems of Political Polarization7
Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Increase Women Voters’ Turnout in Pakistan7
Notes from the Editors7
Motivated Reasoning and Democratic Accountability7
Crediting Invisible Work: Congress and the Lawmaking Productivity Metric (LawProM)7
Protocols of Production: The Absent Factories of Digital Capitalism7
The American Viewer: Political Consequences of Entertainment Media7
Reducing Prejudice toward Refugees: Evidence That Social Networks Influence Attitude Change in Uganda7
The Train Wrecks of Modernization: Railway Construction and Separatist Mobilization in Europe7
White Democrats’ Growing Support for Black Politicians in the Era of the “Great Awokening”6
“Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment6
Equality, Reciprocity, or Need? Bolstering Welfare Policy Support for Marginalized Groups with Distributive Fairness6
Elements of External Validity: Framework, Design, and Analysis6
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Domestic Institutions, Geographic Concentration, and Agricultural Liberalization6
International Rewards for Gender Equality Reforms in Autocracies6
Rethinking the Coloniality of Race: Blood Purity and the Politics of Periodization6
Does State Repression Spark Protests? Evidence from Secret Police Surveillance in Communist Poland6
Greed, Envy, and Admiration: The Distinct Nature of Public Opinion about Redistribution from the Rich6
The Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China’s Great Leap Famine – Expression of Concern6
Conditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rights6
Armed Violence and Patriarchal Values: A Survey of Young Men in Thailand and Their Military Experiences6
“Problems of an Other’s Making”: B. R. Ambedkar, Caste, and Majoritarian Domination6
Ambiguous Platforms and Correlated Preferences: Experimental Evidence6
Politicians’ Theories of Voting Behavior6
Group Size and Protest Mobilization across Movements and Countermovements6
Notes from the Editors: Review Transfers6
Crossing Over: Majority Party Control Affects Legislator Behavior and the Agenda6
The Influence of Unknown Media on Public Opinion: Evidence from Local and Foreign News Sources6
The Political Consequences of Green Policies: Evidence from Italy—CORRIGENDUM5
Coalitional Lobbying and Intersectional Representation in American Rulemaking5
The Global Resonance of Human Rights: What Google Trends Can Tell Us5
Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability5
State Support for Religion and Government Legitimacy in Christian-Majority Countries5
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The Opinion-Mobilizing Effect of Social Protest against Police Violence: Evidence from the 2020 George Floyd Protests – CORRIGENDUM5
Buying a Blind Eye: Campaign Donations, Regulatory Enforcement, and Deforestation5
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Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women’s Political Ambition5
Women Also Know Stuff: Challenging the Gender Gap in Political Sophistication5
They’re Still There, He’s All Gone: American Fatalities in Foreign Wars and Right-Wing Radicalization at Home5
The Creative Advance Must Be Defended: Miscegenation, Metaphysics, and Race War in Jan Smuts’s Vision of the League of Nations5
Notes from the Editors5
A New Measure of Affective Polarization5
Bribes and Bombs: The Effect of Corruption on Terrorism5
From Protest to Child-Rearing: How Movement Politics Shape Socialization Priorities5
Serious Conflicts with Benign Outcomes? The Electoral Consequences of Conflictual Cabinet Terminations5
Activism versus Criticism? The Case for a Distinctive Role for Social Critics5
The Politics of Respectability and Black Americans’ Punitive Attitudes5
Impartial Administration and Peaceful Agrarian Reform: The Foundations for Democracy in Scandinavia5
Strategies of Green Industrial Policy: How States Position Firms in Global Supply Chains5
Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies5
The Gendered Impact of Corruption Revelations: Unveiling the Role of Parties and Voters in Mexico5
Rule Significance and Interbranch Competition in Rulemaking Processes4
Historical Border Changes, State Building, and Contemporary Trust in Europe4
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